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A good accounting and tax bundle for a Malaysian Sdn Bhd covers four things: proper bookkeeping through the year, financial statements prepared under the right accounting standard, corporate tax filing with LHDN (Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri, the Inland Revenue Board), and e-invoicing compliance through the MyInvois system. If a package is missi

Your Sdn Bhd’s financial statements are four main documents: the income statement (shows if you made money), the balance sheet (shows what you own and owe), the cash flow statement (shows where cash actually went), and the Directors’ Report (shows what the directors confirm about the year). If you can read these four, you can… Continue reading

The clearest signal that it’s time to convert your enterprise (sole proprietorship) into a Sdn Bhd isn’t your revenue, your ego, or what your competitor down the street is doing. It’s your net profit. Once your business consistently nets around RM250,000 a year or more, the personal income tax you pay as a sole proprietor… Continue reading Pro

A genuine SSM (Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia) approval email always comes from the official domain @ssm.com.my, never asks you to transfer money to a third-party account, and any attached document is a Digital Certified True Copy (DCTC) in PDF with a QR code you can check yourself. If an email pressures you to pay urgently, links… Continue rea

Yes, you can keep your statutory registers, board resolutions and company records fully digital in Malaysia. The Companies Act 2016 does not require paper. What it does require is that the information stays accessible, accurate and reproducible at your registered office whenever SSM (Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia, the Companies Commission of M

A compliance study plan is a short, structured list of topics you learn in order, over 4 to 6 weeks, so that by the time you incorporate your Sdn Bhd (private limited company), you already know what SSM (Companies Commission of Malaysia), LHDN (Inland Revenue Board), and your company secretary expect from you. You don’t… Continue reading How t

Yes, one person can legally hold both roles in a Malaysian Sdn Bhd, as long as they meet the qualification rules for a company secretary under Section 235. But Section 242 of the Companies Act 2016 draws one clear line: that same person cannot sign off on any document that legally needs both a director’s… Continue reading Can Your Company Secr

Yes, you can strike off a Sdn Bhd that has foreign shareholders. Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM), Malaysia’s Companies Commission, uses the exact same strike-off process under Section 550 of the Companies Act 2016 for companies with foreign ownership as it does for fully Malaysian-owned companies. There is no separate “foreign shareholder”